The Dream Academy were a 1980sBritish folk rock band, comprising Nick Laird-Clowes, Kate St John and Gilbert Gabriel. They were notable for their close connection to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who produced and played on two of their albums. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Kate St John is a female musician, vocalist, composer, record producer, and arranger. ... David Gilmour, as photographed for the Pink Floyd album Meddle. ... A reunited Pink Floyd at the London Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005. ...
Their first single, "Life in a Northern Town" was a sizable hit in the US, charting at #7 on the Billboard Pop Music chart. It proved their only chart success, yet has remained a seminal record for various post-punk artists with folk sensibilities. The single was a tribute to the English singer/songwriter Nick Drake, who recorded "Northern Sky" on his 1970 LP, Bryter Later. The Dream Academy's eponymous debut album also reached a wide audience in the States. Their two subsequent albums did not match the initial success and the group disbanded in the early 1990s. They toured but once in 1991. An example of a Billboard Magazine. ... Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was a British folk guitarist and singer/songwriter. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
The DreamAcademy were a 1980s British folk rock band, comprising singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist (chiefly oboeist) Kate St John and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel.
The trio settled on the name The DreamAcademy and shopped their demos for nearly two years and were rejected "by every record label" before finally landing a record deal with Warners in 1985.
Nick ultimately decided that he could not go on further under the DreamAcademy name as "it wasn't the DreamAcademy with just me" and took some time off to travel to South East Asia and Africa.
In a shocking success story, DreamAcademy's easy-listening, generally dull pop found its way to the top of America's record charts in 1985.
DreamAcademy has thankfully abandoned the nostalgia gimmick, but Laird-Clowes' songs are still trifles, with clumsy lyrics that smack more of education than imagination.
If Prefab Sprout didn't exist, DreamAcademy would still be second-rate, an ornate frame for a missing picture.
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